197: Chapter 137 Attempt to Breakthrough, Dispute [Trinity] 197: Chapter 137 Attempt to Breakthrough, Dispute [Trinity] “Hiss…”
“What a large Snow Mane, how can it be so big?”
“This is an Intermediate Cold Beast!”
“An Intermediate Cold Beast, really hunted an Intermediate Cold Beast…”
“Why is the leader so bloody and battered?”
“He must be injured, Zou Yuankai and Zhu Shun are unconscious too.”
At the Great Xia Station, as Xia Hong led the team back to the valley, it immediately caused an uproar among the people waiting outside.
As they shouted, people in the wooden houses rushed out one after another.
Everyone gathered around the enormous corpse of the Snow Mane, their eyes filled with shock and emotion.
Both eyes of the Snow Mane had been shot blind, clearly absolutely still, completely dead, yet it still gave everyone a shiver deep inside.
Tusks two or three meters long stained with blood;
A body filled with knife wounds and holes;
And a Snow Mane’s head riddled with scars;
All highlighted the breathtaking battle the Hunting Team had just experienced.
Most people knew that the Hunting Team went out tonight to find an Intermediate Cold Beast.
When they left, many in the camp were quite worried.
But then they thought, they were only going to search, not to hunt, so nothing major should happen.
Who could have imagined, they actually attempted to hunt an Intermediate Cold Beast…
Everyone’s eyes shifted from the Snow Mane to the members of the Hunting Team, and lastly, all focused on their leader Xia Hong, filled with awe and admiration.
Some even carried a hint of fanaticism.
Of course, some also noticed the gravely injured and unconscious Zhu Shun and Zou Yuankai, as well as Xia Hong, whose face was horrifically burned by Beast Blood.
“Don’t crowd here, take Zhu Shun and Zou Yuankai inside first for treatment; Xia Chuan, get the team to carry the prey up for processing; everyone else injured in the Hunting Team, go back and rest immediately; Mu Dong, prepare a two-meter-diameter wooden barrel and bring it to my room.”
As soon as Xia Hong finished his words, he rushed upstairs with the bag of blood.
The others were still a bit confused, only Xia Chuan and the rest of the Hunting Team looked up at him, their faces showing a hint of worry.
Earlier in Redwood Ridge under dim light and in a rush, they hadn’t noticed, but outside Redwood Ridge, they clearly saw the terrible state of Xia Hong’s skin, scorched by the Cold Beast Blood.
“Will the leader be alright?”
Luo Yuan couldn’t help but ask in a low voice.
Xia Chuan thought for a moment, shaking his head, “He should be fine, if something were really wrong, he couldn’t have held on for so long just now, quickly go draw the blood, big brother should attempt to break through to the Cold Resistance Level soon!”
Luo Yuan’s worry immediately vanished, replaced with excitement.
The leader is about to break through to the Cold Resistance Level!
On the third floor, back in his room, Xia Hong.
As soon as he sat down on the chair, he reached up to touch his facial skin.
With just a light touch, intense pain instantly surged through his mind.
“All my skin’s been burnt off, now, I’m really disfigured!”
Xia Hong walked to the small wooden barrel in the room, glancing at his reflection on the water surface, his pupils showed a touch of horror.
His face had large areas of burns, no good skin could be found, only flesh, with his features so exposed that if not dyed with blood, it would look several times more terrifying.
“Even though it hurts, it’s obvious that my skin is constantly recovering, and the speed is getting faster, just this burning sensation hasn’t subsided at all, and it’s getting worse…”
Xia Hong looked down at his own skin, already showing a few tiny white spots, although the speed was slow, the white spots were spreading noticeably.
And as the white spots spread, he could clearly sense his Basic Strength increasing continually.
Xia Hong clenched his fists, feeling the enhancement in strength, a trace of excitement gradually flashed across his painful expression.
“Indeed, strength can continue to increase, Luo Ming once said the standard for Cold Resistance Level is to be completely exposed under the sunlight, fully referencing those four hours of daylight, meaning the breakthrough to Cold Resistance Level isn’t an overnight event, but requires the use of Intermediate Cold Beast Blood to continually reshape the skin until it is eventually perfected.
And the standard of perfection is to last those four hours during the day!”
This wasn’t a random guess by Xia Hong, when he saw Yuwen Dao in Redwood Ridge just now, this hypothesis had already emerged in his mind.
At this moment, feeling the skin remodeling process in himself, still entirely in the initial stage, he became even more confident in his conjecture.
Yuwen Dao’s Basic Strength is likely above his own, but he was still hunting at night, yet to break through to the Cold Resistance Level, which already explains it.
“This bag of blood weighs about thirty pounds, plus that Snow Mane should nearly add up to a hundred pounds of Cold Beast Blood, I wonder how much it can reshape my skin!”
The pain was clearly diminishing, yet Xia Hong’s face showed no joy, his heart even felt somewhat empty.
Because together with the subsiding pain, he also sensed the diminishing feeling of increasing strength.
That exhilarating sensation, once experienced through training, is hard for anyone to refuse.
“Leader, the blood is ready, the wooden barrel is also done.”
Xia Chuan and Mu Dong carried a large wooden barrel inside.
The barrel had a diameter of two meters and stood over a meter high, already filled more than halfway with scarlet blood, obviously newly taken from the Snow Mane they had just brought back.
The two were afraid of the blood in the barrel spilling out, moving very lightly and slowly, gently placing it in the center of the room.
“Big brother, are you alright?”